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Time Cover Shows 3-Year-Old Breast-Feeding
ABCNews ^ | May 10, 2012

Posted on 05/10/2012 8:57:14 PM PDT by Steelfish

May 10, 2012 11:24am Time Cover Shows 3-Year-Old Breast-Feeding

This week's cover of Time Magazine shows a mother nursing her 3-year-old son.

Should a mom continue nursing her child even after he’s too big to be held in her arms? For mothers who practice what’s known as “attachment parenting,” the answer is an emphatic “yes” — and some are more than happy to demonstrate.

This week’s cover of Time Magazine shows Los Angeles mother Jamie Lynne Grumet nursing her 3-year-old son, who reaches her breast with the help of a chair.

“When you think of breast-feeding, you think of mothers holding their children, which was impossible with some of these older kids,” photographer Martin Schoeller said in a Time Magazine online story explaining the cover photo. “I liked the idea of having the kids standing up to underline the point that this was an uncommon situation.”

The cover story illustrated by the photo takes a look at the philosophy of attachment parenting today — which, in addition to extended breastfeeding, also promotes co-sleeping and using slings to “wear” infants — and its roots in the 1992 parenting guide, “The Baby Book” by Dr. Bill and Martha Sears.

Time also posted photos of other nursing mothers featured in its story, including Missouri mom Dionna Ford of Kansas City, Mo., shown here at right with her four-year-old and five-month-old children.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: attachmentparenting; billsears; breastfeeding; parenting; thebabybook; williamsears
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To: Steelfish

It’s waaaaay past time to stop breastfeeding when the kid is old enough to call for lunch by saying “tittie, mommy, tittie.” Personally, I’d stop when the first tooth appeared but what do I know?


51 posted on 05/11/2012 4:19:18 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Chen Guangcheng: Gutsy call, Obama /UltraMegaDrippingSarc)
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To: equaviator
I actually stumbled across a Rolling Stone mag in a dentists office not so long ago.

It use to be a big magazine. It's tiny now.

52 posted on 05/11/2012 4:30:43 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: lastchance

“Something very wrong with the way the photo is posed”

Yeah, you could say that.

It’s a sick picture and the woman is extremely sick to allow her and her child to be shown that way.

This is the MSM folks, as their downward spiral continues.

I wish Al Goldstein were alive today, I’d love to hear his take on this.


53 posted on 05/11/2012 4:45:10 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: Explorer89

I saw that full shot the first time. That magazine editor and the photographer are sick.


54 posted on 05/11/2012 4:58:23 AM PDT by tioga
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To: All

VERY DISTURBING photo. It’s pornographic, child abuse, embarrassing, immoral and I think this woman is disgusting. This kid is going to have issues growing up.....


55 posted on 05/11/2012 5:39:33 AM PDT by Fawn (Rush Babe on Board.)
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To: Fawn
Guess Time is trying to increase circulation. They are acting like a 13 year old vying for attention. Best to ignore them so no one notices this disturbing cover.

Gosh, I remember when Time would have a Norman Rockwell on their cover every now and then. Things are spinning out of control faster and faster.

56 posted on 05/11/2012 5:45:48 AM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Coulter, Kristol, Krauthammer, Rove et al., STFU. Thank you.)
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To: Steelfish

I DO NOT want to see what they have planned for the cover of their Father’s Day issue.


57 posted on 05/11/2012 6:18:11 AM PDT by blindsangamon
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To: Steelfish
Photobucket
58 posted on 05/11/2012 7:49:45 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase

Bookmark


59 posted on 05/14/2012 11:42:05 AM PDT by Publius6961 ("It's easy to make promises you can't keep" - B.H.Obama Feb 23, 2012)
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To: Dogbert41
You mean there’s going to be a Time or a Newsweek that does not have Obama on the cover? Amazing!!!

He would have been, but was on vacation and unavailable that week.

It summarizes dramatically his African philosophy of governing a society.

60 posted on 05/14/2012 11:57:02 AM PDT by Publius6961 ("It's easy to make promises you can't keep" - B.H.Obama Feb 23, 2012)
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